Top 25 Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Children need role models rather than critics.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

In a fast changing world, choosing a role model becomes exceedingly tough. An easier option could be to chose anti-role-models. . . people you would not like to be, or things you would not like to do!

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.

Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren’t celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

It’s funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don’t feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who’s doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it’s more possible.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can’t find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

Role models really matter. It’s hard to imagine yourself as something you don’t see.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don’t wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, ‘If they can do this, so can I.’ That starts to trigger people, as well.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

I’ve never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I’ve done business with more of them and they’re leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

Pick your role models wisely.

We need good role models, and they have to start at the top.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

You don’t have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about – never actually met.

I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That’s what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I’m super competitive.

I don’t have just one role model – rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.

I don’t believe athletes should be role models. . . . We’re a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models. . . . I think one of the problems in society today is that we don’t stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

People need role models. Are you up to the job?